Beto O'Rourke's Bold Statement on Gun Control: 'Hell Yes' He Wants to Take Your AR-15

Beto O'Rourke's Bold Statement on Gun Control: 'Hell Yes' He Wants to Take Your AR-15

INTRODUCTION:

This article was published 3 weeks ago, just after the third Democratic debate. The candidates have already started their campaign for the presidential election. In a context of many current and recent cases of mass shootings in the United States, Beto O'Rourke, one of the democratic candidate, express his deep consternation, and propose a drastic solution.

ORGANIZED SUMMARY:

1. The consternation of Beto O’Rourke

• His speech is very poignant. He knows which button pushed to raise people’s awareness of this subject.
• He is very touched by this. His own hometown have been touched recently and this mean his speech is very authentic.
• He critics the utility of weapons, and told us that weapons are made to kill people, and not for anything else.
• He is one of the only to go to the fight with this ferocity.

1. The solution that he proposes

• He gives a drastic solution: force people to sell their rifle to the state.
• It’s a very important decision because it’s a very controversial debate.
• There is also others candidates who propose just to stop the selling of assault weapons, a solution less radical.
• There are many opponent to that law project who are quoting in the article. But we can quote especially NRA: National Rifle Association, a gun rights advocacy group.
• This lobby is very powerful and blocks any attempt to change things because the business of firearms would be in danger. NRA reacts to O’Rourke.
• They say that there is no problem to have a gun and it’s not a solution to prevent any danger to remove to people their weapons.

TRANSITION:

In this article, we can see that the problem of guns in the United States is really problematic. But why the subject is always on the table and doesn’t seem progress, years after years? I’d like to explore some possible reasons of this paradox.

COMMENTARY:

• There is a lot of mass shooting in America, who revived and fed the debate. Some people will tell you it’s the fault of guns rights, others people will tell you the opposite.
• In politic, if you want change things, you need to be powerful. The situation is blocked by the NRA. Even you become president and want to reform something about firearms, you can’t, and Obama, as the man most powerful in the world, experienced that. NRA can be more than him, with money.
• I add that in America, parties take the power alternatively. Republicans are pro-guns, and democrats are anti-guns. For example, Donald Trump support NRA, and Barack Obama before him as president, don’t. This can explain why things don’t change.
• A lot of people are supporting the lobby, because it’s in their culture to have guns. Remove a right to people, even if it’s justify, it’s very difficult.
• The business of guns is very profitable. Stop the selling of firearms will have bad consequences for the economy.

CONCLUSION:

In conclusion, there is many factors who explain why the situation doesn’t progress. Personally, I can’t tell you why some people needs to have weapons. I don’t understand the utility of it, except for waste bullet, or to give to someone the opportunity to hurt somebody else, and I think I’m more or less agree with Beto O’Rourke.

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